Monday, October 20, 2008

55

1.
radio off there’s really
no way of knowing
and ignorance of the law is
no excuse
if cops come
bust us all

no nuclear war
no global warming

we ought to crawl everywhere
pull over right now
and crawl
back to St. Louis

we’ll say officer
it may look strange
but I’m crawling along
this major American interstate

2.
we don’t go through cities
we go around them

cities slow you down
like food and bladders

we don’t stop we don’t
sight see
the highway
is for going
if you want to see things
you better bring
an illustrated book

insufficient respect
for the code of the highway
the speed limit
is contextual you
have to maintain
a like velocity
if traffic
is doing 70
it isn’t safe
to do 55

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